Ability Quote by Joseph Joubert

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

— Kedar Joshi

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus…

— Ezra Pound

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

— Benjamin Franklin

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things…

— Benjamin Haydon

What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in…

— Brennan Manning

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

— Ambrose Bierce

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are…

— Wayne Dyer

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

— Henry David Thoreau